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@trochee@dair-community.social
2025-09-03 05:45:58

This list of Unicode character name errata feels like back-matter for some SF novel
unicode.org/notes/tn27/
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U+0F0A TIBETAN MARK BKA- SHOG YIG MGO

This character is used to indicate that a document is addressed to a superior (the "petition honorific"), but the Tibetan name actually indicates a superior addressing an inferior ("starting flourish for giving a command").
U+0F0B TIBETAN MARK INTERSYLLABIC TSHEG

The tsheg mark is not restricted to intersyllabic usage, and would have been better named Tibetan mark tsheg.
U+0F0C TIBETAN MARK DELIMITER TSHEG BSTAR

This character is not a de…